Who Cares If Languages Become Extinct?(ArtsJournal Media)

13 october 2017 00:23:29

`Tales of language extinction are invariably tragic. But why, exactly? Aka-Bo, like many other extinct languages, did not make a difference to the lives of the vast majority of people. Yet the sense that we lose something valuable when languages die is familiar. Just as familiar, though, is the view that preserving minority languages is […]